TMNT: The Last Ronin (The Game)

[Zulithe]

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Announced platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, XBox Series X|S

Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost.

From the minds of the creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and based on the best-selling comic book event by Eastman, Waltz, Bishop, Delgado, and the Escorza Brothers: the official video game adaptation of TMNT: The Last Ronin.

Coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

#TMNT #THQNordic2023

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[LeotheLateBloomer]

Part of me is worried because I don't trust THQ to release polished AAA games but the fact that it won't be for last-gen gives me somewhat hope.

[Cowabung-Gal]

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[Andrew NDB]

https://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=65860

[Coola Yagami]

Part of me is worried because I don't trust THQ to release polished AAA games but the fact that it won't be for last-gen gives me somewhat hope.

Actually the fact that it won't be on the PS4 made me go from excited to.... lost all interest.

[Hamato_Clan]

I’ll take single player for now because 4 doesn’t seem to work out. So hopefully it’s baby steps.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Actually the fact that it won't be on the PS4 made me go from excited to.... lost all interest.

I mean, you might get a PS5 or Series X/S by then.

[Zulithe]

This game ain't anytime soon. So yeah, you can plan to get a ps5 or latest xbox if you don't have one. Or upgrade your PC. Plenty of time to work on that.

[Roseangelo]

Actually the fact that it won't be on the PS4 made me go from excited to.... lost all interest.

Time to upgrade that regardless of this game.

As a staunch Nintendo person, I am planning to buy an Xbox in the next few months. It is time.

[Andrew NDB]

Time to upgrade that regardless of this game.


For sure. PS4 came out 10 years ago. That's the same amount of time between when the SNES came out and the Gamecube, and we had the N64 in between there.

[CyberCubed]

This game won't be out till 2026+, so nobody is going to be thinking about PS4 by then.

[Maelxich]

It seems to be made by black forest games, so I don't expect a good game at all. I mean there is a chance, but their track record is horrible. I think this will be Mutants in Manhatten all over again, a great idea but horrible executed

[Coola Yagami]

Maybe. I mean KOF15 and SF6 are pretty much guaranteeing another 2-3 more years of PS4 goodness and there are still so many games I haven't bought yet.

[Shark_Blade]

The teaser is kinda bad I hardly see anything but I’m still stoked for it.

[Coola Yagami]

The teaser is kinda bad I hardly see anything but I’m still stoked for it.

Teasers are pretty much 'this is a thing that exists now'.

[The Deadman]

The teaser is kinda bad I hardly see anything but I’m still stoked for it.

Welcome to how video game teasers work ever since theyve ever been a thing.

[Drose18]

Maybe im just hyped but I liked the teaser fwiw. I thought it was a nice touch referencing the other 3's deaths at least. Seems like the game will be somewhat faithful to the comics.

Obviously wish we saw some sort of gameplay. The artwork looks nice not sure if thats original to this or not.

[Ninja Tiptup]

It seems to be made by black forest games, so I don't expect a good game at all. I mean there is a chance, but their track record is horrible. I think this will be Mutants in Manhatten all over again, a great idea but horrible executed

Not much of anything from their catalog inspires confidence for me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Games

This is precisely why the promise of a AAA TMNT game immediately gave me pause. AAA licensed based games are not often good.

[DevilSpooky]

Not much of anything from their catalog inspires confidence for me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Games

This is precisely why the promise of a AAA TMNT game immediately gave me pause. AAA licensed based games are not often good.

They made the 2 Destroy all Humans remakes and they are love letters to the originals, and showed nothing but care and respect to the fans of that franchise, something that we've never saw from the likes of Ubisoft or Activision, hell, not even from the actual owners of the TMNT IP.

[Wednesday's Serial]

The God of War inspiration gives me pause.
Why not something like the Ghost of Tsushima?
God of War wasn't very ninja, and was pretty by the numbers, not a lot of room for player expression.
We'll see in a few years I guess.

[Drose18]

That’s some nice fan art?

[Wednesday's Serial]

Pretty clearly AI-generated.

[Cowabung-Gal]

It’s a variant for the comic series

[FanRS870]

Wait this game

[Andrew NDB]

Wait this game

There is no game. They announced it prematurely and then the studio got almost completely gutted.

[Red Robin]

https://www.gameinformer.com/exclusive-interview/2024/03/05/tmnt-co-creator-kevin-eastman-on-why-the-last-ronin-is-being-made

Eastman speaking about the Last Ronin game. Seems like they are progressing and the game is still in Development.

[RaphaelinSTL]

This article was published in March, but I’d bet the interview was done before that as there’s no mention of the layoffs at the studio. I kind of doubt there’s any movement on it.

[The Deadman]

If the dev goes belly up then so does the game, unless another developer wants it.

[RaphaelinSTL]

HOLY ****. THE GAME IS BACK, AND NOW PLATINUM GAMES IS DEVELOPING IT. (https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-last-ronin-game-trailer-1236768243/)

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I wonder if it will get a Switch 1 release. Probably not though. It looks like I chose a bad time to quit keeping up with modern consoles.

[sdp]

this is basically a different game now. Last time platinum did a TMNT game it wasn't well received.
I wonder if they'll out that one on sale again.

[RaphaelinSTL]

this is basically a different game now. Last time platinum did a TMNT game it wasn't well received.
I wonder if they'll out that one on sale again.

Probably not, Activision screwed them over pretty badly, and it showed in the final product.

Definitely seems like they're going for a better play style vibe that fits SO much more than the last developer.

[Autbot_Benz]

lol the Fred Wolf theme doesn’t work for Last Ronin I kinda laughed at that during the announcement trailer

[RaphaelinSTL]

Cool interview up on Polygon (https://www.polygon.com/tmnt-last-ronin-game-announced-platinum-games/).

This time, Kittelsen said that Platinum is aiming for something more “on that prestige level” with The Last Ronin. “We do cite Metal Gear Rising a lot, but we also talk about games like Ghost of Yotei, Ghost of Tsushima, [and] God of War,” he said. “One of the early conversations that we had with Shimbori-san and the rest of the team at Platinum was making this game a combination of Japanese-style combat — Platinum combat — with Western storytelling and to really own the roots of TMNT as a New York-based American comic, so that we maintain that level of authenticity. That means that we are collaborating with them on a really deep level in the story.”

I wonder if it will get a Switch 1 release. Probably not though. It looks like I chose a bad time to quit keeping up with modern consoles.

Yeah, definitely not Switch 1, but I could see a Switch 2 version.

[Andrew NDB]

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I'm surprised!

[neatoman]

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I'm surprised!

In what way?

[TheLabRat]

My blind wish for this game is:

- Most of enemies are human instead of robots

- Blood and enemy remains are everywhere

- Let Mikey executed Karai

- Hiroto is killed by Mikey instead killed by his own nanosuit

- Hiroto in the game has more meaningful storylines than in the comic, and is at least disturbing and hateful enough to not be a boring character.

- Happy ending(Mikey survive) route just like Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time
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[sdp]

3 years ago we had a teaser trailer with no in game footage and today we have a teaser trailer with no game footage

[TheLabRat]

At best, we might get DMC-like or Ninja Gaiden-like or Old GoW-like gameplay style. At worst, New GoW-like.

[Andrew NDB]

In what way?

In every way that we were told it was dead. And then dead again. What do you mean?

They literally tell us it is dead and then a year later this is not news?

[Daytona]

Paramount Games are saying this will have more resources allocated to it and that the TMNT and Platinum Games both deserve better than what we got in the last Platinum-TMNT game.

Good to hear. TMNT game by Platinum with a decent budget. This should be pretty damn good.

Their most recent outing - Ninja Gaiden 4 - didn’t live up to the series potential and left me a b it disappointed, but is still a high quality action game the likes we’ve never really seen with TMNT.

Last thing they mentioned was you “play as a tank of a turtle” so the combat will differ in that way from Ninja Gaiden or Bayonetta. I actually don’t mind the sound of that if it leads to a fresh combat system that’s methodical as well as introduces elements of stealth. I don’t need it to be fast I just want it to be deep.

[IndigoErth]

Well call me shocked. Changing hands to save it and still make it happen is not something I'd have willingly put any bets on.

[Daytona]

Probably bc older TMNT fans are like battered wives at this point. We have been trained to expect disappointment. We’ve been trained to watch a production begin with “this will take TMNT back to its roots!” only to have it slowly morph into something directionless and confused by the time it reaches the public.

It’ll be a slow transition into accepting that The Last Ronin is ridiculously successful and will pay many dividends for those who have loved this style of TMNT for a long while. It woke up all types of new and lapsed interest in the brand. A whole new potential audience proven and highlighted. They’re gonna keep selling to us. The game is probably the most obvious adaptation so I’m not surprised they kept it going.

[RaphaelinSTL]

I would love for this to be playable by Fall 2027, but I won't hold my breath. Just let PlatinumGames cook and don't hold them to any timelines like Activision did 10 years ago.

[Andrew NDB]

Just let PlatinumGames cook and don't hold them to any timelines like Activision did 10 years ago.

Eventually they always will have to because these are room fulls of guys working on it who are clocking on and clocking off and not doing a charity and the bill is getting higher and higher.

This isn't like a passion project guys are doing in their free time for free. Probably sooner or later the plug will be pulled on it and like most recent TMNT games, it'll be "almost there" but still pretty unfinished.

Probably bc older TMNT fans are like battered wives at this point.

Man, I've been saying that in the fandom since I was like 20.

"One day [TMNT] will get better, you'll see! [TMNT] will stop picking up the belt and beating me!"

But nope, [TMNT] just keeps on beating, every time.

But I think at least a lot people woke up around the 2016 movie. 2016 and Mutant Mayhem were the first times a new big TMNT project wasn't treated as a big religious experience vs. something that is heavily flawed.

[Daytona]

Yeah I can see some truth in that. Although the critics did seem to love MM, the box office wasn’t great, so a lot of that praise might just be low expectations or political/cultural virtue signaling after the April “controversy”.

2016 was the first TMNT movie I didn’t see in theaters since I was old enough to go. It was the first one I knew I wouldn’t like. Then I gave MM a chance and left during the third act. Not like I huffed & puffed my way out of the theater, but I just felt it had nothing to offer me and walked out.

But I think it was the combination of Mutant Mayhem’s disappointing return and the redonkulous success of TLR happening simultaneously that finally pushed the boulder up the hill. I’m sure “Rise” played a part as well. Money spoke in multiple places at the right time.

I firmly believe the brand is in a way better place now bc of TLR. I think the alternate timeline without TLR has a very mediocre looking lineup of TMNT adaptations/stories/entertainment over the next decade, whereas as in our reality, us fans of the Mirage TMNT are going to be thrown some pretty great bones occasionally, as we and the brand have always rightly deserved.

[TheLabRat]

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/skydance-announces-layoffs-to-games-division-following-111bn-merger

[CyberCubed]

This game is never happening. The live-action Last Ronin movie being canceled was a good thing and this game being canceled is a second good thing.

[ToTheNines]

Last Ronin will be a decade old before we know it. If they wanted to strike while the iron was hot, they blew it.

[Andrew NDB]

There really isn't rushing a "proper" video game, unless you are OK with ending up with something like the last couple mainstream TMNT video games we got.

And it's always the same. They make a lot of hooplah about a game, it comes out and is rushed and unfinished. If you're lucky you might get half a patch before the TMNT license runs out on them and the game wasn't profitable enough to renew it. Rinse and repeat.

This isn't like the old days where Konami could pump out a brand new TMNT Final Fight clone every weekend.